Stephen Lekapenos

Stephen Lekapenos (896-18 April 963) was the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 944 to 945, succeeding Romanus I of Byzantium and preceding Constantine VII of Byzantium.

Biography
Stephen Lekapenos was born in 896 to the House of Lekapenos, a dynasty of Orthodox Christian Greeks. He was the second son of Emperor Romanus I of Byzantium, and he served as co-emperor to his father from 924 to 944, when he overthrew his father and became the sole emperor. In 945 Lekapenos was himself overthrown by the rightful emperor, Constantine VII of Byzantium, and he was exiled to the island of Lesbos.